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Poe Ballantine

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Poe Ballantine is a fiction and nonfiction writer known for his novels and especially his essays, many of which appear in The Sun. His second novel, Decline of the Lawrence Welk Empire, won Foreword Magazine’s Book of the Year. The odd jobs, eccentric characters, boarding houses, buses, and beer that populate Ballantine’s work often draw comparisons to the life and work of Charles Bukowski and Jack Kerouac.

One of Ballantine’s short stories, The Blue Devils of Blue River Avenue, was included in Best American Short Stories 1998 and one of his essays, 501 Minutes to Christ, appeared in Best American Essays 2006. [wikipedia]

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	Love and Terror on the Howling Plains of Nowhere: A Memoir by Poe Ballantine (Goodreads Author), Cheryl Strayed (Goodreads Author) (Introduction) 3.88 avg rating — 876 ratings — published 2013 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Things I Like About America: Personal Narratives 4.24 avg rating — 291 ratings — published 2002 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	501 Minutes to Christ: Personal Essays 4.21 avg rating — 222 ratings — published 2007 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	God Clobbers Us All 3.86 avg rating — 204 ratings — published 2004 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Whirlaway: The Great American Loony Bin, Horseplaying & Record-Collecting Novel 4.15 avg rating — 130 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Decline of the Lawrence Welk Empire: A Novel 3.89 avg rating — 101 ratings — published 2006 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Guidelines for Mountain Lion Safety 4.37 avg rating — 73 ratings — published 2015 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	No Talking to Imaginary People 4.37 avg rating — 30 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Rodney Kills at Night 4.36 avg rating — 14 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Torpedoes D'Amour 4.07 avg rating — 14 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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I rose at four in the morning skipping breakfast and drove the ninety-six miles to Rapid City to catch a twin prop to Denver where I skipped lunch and caught another twin prop to Toronto. They don’t like jets much in Toronto, the signs are everywhere. After running a formidable maze of airport security and showing my passport nineteen times (but not having a cattle prod rammed up my ass Read more of this blog post »

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“I read to him from his mother's Bible the first line of Genesis: 'In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.' It says nothing about hell, Tom. That came later with the membership drive.”
― Poe Ballantine, Love and Terror on the Howling Plains of Nowhere: A Memoir

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“Most people would live in an outhouse in Bangladesh before they would voluntarily move to Nebraska.”
― Poe Ballantine, Love and Terror on the Howling Plains of Nowhere: A Memoir

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“The errors of the policeman were no greater or careless or more egregious than mine. It’s just that my mistakes had comparatively little consequence.”
― Poe Ballantine, Love and Terror on the Howling Plains of Nowhere: A Memoir

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